PvP Needs Full Rework

[Anhra]

The direction of chain cc and instakill skills? Stuff like "3% chance of doing 100% damage" is truly the pinnacle of game design, right?

Slow combat is not necessarily a bad thing. PvP will never be perfectly balanced but at least back then it was compatible with FF14's playerbase. It was very lenient, accessible, worked well with the weird server tick shenanigans and was playable across all three modes (it wasn't only about Feast).

Also, I miss playing an actual healer in pvp.

PvP doesnt need to be balanced, unlike PvE, all that matters is the Question "can i defeat X as Class Y, and if not, does X have other Gamechanging aspects where it can make a difference?"

As long as Combat itself is more Skillbased (Player intuition and reflexes making a actual difference) than Powerbased (numbers are everything policy, like in PvE), it is going into a good direction. I would take getting stunlocked to death anytime over fighting Healergolems where the only solution is to run away if you dont have multiple People just to bring down 1 melee dps or Healer (if youre playing for example, ranged dps).

Previous Class design was a cesspool where Healers were Tanks, Ranged Dps was just Cannonfodder, Tanks were duped Dps Jobs noone took seriously and EVERYONE had disgusting self Heal tools which turned every Feast match into a Wild Goose (Healer) chase for a whole 5 Min, because hardly anyone could punish the insane amount of Healing happening all over the place.


Also allow me to remind you, that if 6.1. were just a ordinary Feast Season, PvP would be dead again by now since Top 100 Boosters would have already secured their place by now with Both Main and Alts for possible elimination of potential threats.

[LowIQ]

"can i defeat Enemy X as Class Y, and if not, does Y have other Gamechanging aspects where it can make a difference in Combat?"

True, true. The playerbase and the servers are clearly ready for this fast paced skill/reflexes/twitch-based 360 noscope gameplay.
Peak class design as well where everyone is a dps machine with an Anime Main Character syndrome.
What I love the most is this intuition gameplay of somehow knowing when you'll get Chainsawed out of nowhere. Or times when you just know that you are at the intersection of 2 WHM beams but then your god gamer senses kick in and you preemptively move away and manage to avoid instant death.

[Darthgummibear]

PvP doesnt need to be balanced

This right here is where you lose any chance at having any credibility whatsoever.

[Oni_Akuma]

PvP doesnt need to be balanced, unlike PvE, all that matters is the Question "can i defeat X as Class Y, and if not, does X have other Gamechanging aspects where it can make a difference?"

As long as Combat itself is more Skillbased (Player intuition and reflexes making a actual difference) than Powerbased (numbers are everything policy, like in PvE), it is going into a good direction. I would take getting stunlocked to death anytime over fighting Healergolems where the only solution is to run away if you dont have multiple People just to bring down 1 melee dps or Healer (if youre playing for example, ranged dps).

Previous Class design was a cesspool where Healers were Tanks, Ranged Dps was just Cannonfodder, Tanks were duped Dps Jobs noone took seriously and EVERYONE had disgusting self Heal tools which turned every Feast match into a Wild Goose (Healer) chase for a whole 5 Min, because hardly anyone could punish the insane amount of Healing happening all over the place.


Also allow me to remind you, that if 6.1. were just a ordinary Feast Season, PvP would be dead again by now since Top 100 Boosters would have already secured their place by now with Both Main and Alts for possible elimination of potential threats.

The Monk instant death combo was glorious those days. It was a test of weaving and skill (+ping) those were the days. Perfect potting was a great feature, not this excuse of just rejuvenate and have 15000 flat heal (25% hp restored), but it also put mana management involved which means pop heal first 15000 hp lost and manage it.

The Secret Monk Code pre Crystal Conflict

Monk had such a great QoL pre Crystal Conflict lol


Kill rotation opener:
- Brotherhood + Shoulder Tackle > GCD1 > RoF+Feint+Bloodbath> GCD2 + Tornado Kick +Axe Kick> GCD3 + Tornado Kick + Shoulder Tackle > Six Sided Star > The Forbidden Chakra +Smite + Shoulder Tackle


True Burst on 5th Chakra:

- Brotherhood + GCD1 [5th Chakra] + Riddle of Fire + Feint+ Bloodbath >The Forbidden Chakra + ShoulderTackle > GCD2 + Tornado Kick +Axe Kick> GCD3 + Tornado Kick + Shoulder Tackle > Six Sided Star > The Forbidden Chakra +Smite + Shoulder Tackle [when you get a lucky rng Chakra bubble]